Lit Fest 2

OMG! You guys I am so psyched about this literacy fest that I am planning with my new publisher. It's a new house so I am triple excited to be working there. I am by nature a gifter... I love people's faces when they get a present! So if you mix those 2 things... you get... trouble! Lol

Because I am totally excited and possibly even manic right now I have made like a zillion promos. Magnets, memo pads, banners, even those clips you use to bind documents.

Its funny all I ever wanted was to be fine artist when I was young. I took every art class because eveyone said I had talent.. and since I was disabled but winning contests that brought money into the school my last 2 years they started creating art classes just for me to graduate. One of those classes was comercial art. At the time ads were cut and paste by hand and I hated that so never did the work. However EVERY lecture, film, seminar lab I attended with great joy. It was one of the most intruiging classes I ever took. Why? Because there's this weird thing I noticed about people. They know what they want to buy... then they see an ad or comercial and go to the store and buy everything they didn't want. I always wondered how that worked because I do it too! Lol

Do you know what great secret I learned in comercial art? It isn't the art work, displays or ads that sells... it's the basis of an idea … and MOSTLY it's the wording! Amazing huh? It's true. If I am going today to buy an air conditioner okay? But I see a coupon or ad that says, “20% 0ff with WORKING referal” I will go with that company. However if that company gets no business from that referal I don't get my discount. While I know this I still buy from that coupon.

People love a discount or a freebee. WHY? Because when someone hands us something free or gives us a discount we are under the impression that we got one over on them! So in short advertising and discounts are nothing more than reverse psychology.

Since I had a house full of teens for years.. I am a PRO! LOL

That's my side of it,

Angel

www.streetlighthalo.com

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Great news guyx!!!!!

EXCITING STUFF!

Ok so I can't yet tell you when my book release will be or my launch, HOWEVER,.. I can tell you it is very soon and I can tell you exciting stuff I am doing today!

Well I am planning a hold onto your hat... Literacy Fest! I hope it all works out. I am arranging vendors in the area to help with give away bags. I am trying to find food vendors... if not I can have like a bake sale... perhaps a school might want to do that, if I can't find like hot dogs. I am getting authors together for signings! I am making magnets! Book marks. I have T-shirts for give-aways! I am so excited!

In more exciting news if you want that dragon book, “Quest for the Red Sapphire” by Rival Gates, it goes on sale tomorrow at Amazon for 99 cents! Awesome buy!!!! I read it. It ROCKS!

Okay so the garden other then the plants will be finished soon. I'll post pics later this week... it has to warm up before I can work outside. It is supposed to be like 29 degrees tomorrow. That's a harsh switch for a summer of 104.

Keep watching! Book release date soon!!!!!!

That's my side of it,

Angel 

Most Interesting Author Part 2

A new twisted commercial plays in your brain... for The Most Interesting Author In the World!

Camera pans in on Angel Dunworth teaching moose sky-diving and jousting skills.

Voice over: When she goes bungee jumping in Mexico her code name is “Pinyata!”

Camera circles and pans on Angel Dunworth handing out Love beads to the organic tomatoes in the politically - correct remake of, “Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!”

Voice over: When she alphabetizes, she does it in numerical order.

Camera pans around again to show Angel Dunworth teaching lemmings to write suicide notes using proper grammar and quality stationary.

Voice over: She's not just a square; she's an actual cube!

Camera pans in on close up of Angel Dunworth using a washer in a commercial laundry mat to soak beans.

Voice over: Her Cable channels are hooked up to the Clapper! She IS The Most Interesting Author in The World!

Camera pans in on Angel Dunworth folding tortillas on a laundry mat table.

Author: I don't always take personal time; but when I do I place lunch-meat in my shoes and pretend to be a salad. Stay crazy my friends!

That's my side of it,

Angel

www.streetlighthalo.com

PS Exciting news very soon... stay tuned! 

Interview

Interview with Angel Dunworth

www.streetlighthalo.com

What do you write?

Just about everything... I adore words, puns, anything to do with language. The book I have coming out is a short story collection written for troubled teens and parents addressing issues of things they deal with today. My website is filled with links to organizations that offer help and also articles, statistics... whatever I thought might be useful.

How do you write?

I was reading an interview by another writer and in it he stated that he writes from an outline like we used to have to make in high school. People write from an outline or plan? I can't even imagine how hard that must be. The only way I've ever been able to write is for the first paragraph and first scene... words will just start popping into my head and I have to write them down. I just take it and run...with no plan anything can happen and it feels so free I get addicted until I’m done.

Isn't that harder to do?

No. not for me. It does have it's drawbacks. One time I was reading to the kids in my living room and one says, "What happened to such and such?" Oh hell I left that character stranded in the middle of the book! lol Forgot all about her. lol

Another time after my cancer surgery they put me on opiates. I had this awesome idea for the sequel for my masterpiece. Remember though I was on percaset for pain. So 2 weeks later when the Rx was over I reread... about 30 pages and it said over and over "and then it was." lol

I hadn't written the great thing I thought and neither could I remember what I was going to write! Lol

What inspires you to write?

The first inspiration I ever remember is my Pappaw when I was little reading to me and using different character voices. That used to thrill me to no end. I loved his Winnie the Pooh voices!

Now I write what's real mostly. I get inspired simply by wanting to help and putting myself in, “Wow! What are they going through and how does it effect them?”

When I really need to FEEL inspiration, I use prayer or I simply look at my loved ones and at how blessed I am. Once I do that I want every one to become as blessed as I am and so I write. I write about mindsets and obstacles. To me those things are fantasy, the reality is this, “Do not become your situation; Over come your situation.”

Not a bad mantra, any others you use a lot?

Life is not about waiting out the storm; life is about dancing in the rain!

Even at its worst: Life is good!

FEAR... F-E-A-R

False

Evidence

Appearing

Real

That's about it!

Sounds good. So where do I buy this book of yours?

Snapshots from Home will be available where you buy ebooks most likely Amazon. Release date to be disclosed soon.

The soft cover is not close to ready yet but I will blog about it when it is!

Let's have that blog info

My blog can be read from the website www.streetlighthalo.com OR

http://streetlighthalo.blogspot.com/

However if you write to me at streetlighthalo0711@gmail I can email them straight to you if you like. It's no trouble, it's just harder to keep track of the numbers is all.

Thanks for your time!

Thanks for listening!

Zen 2

Might have exciting news about my book in the next month!
Okay so here are the pics of the Zen Garden so far. I don't care for the little place on the wooden stairs... might change that. Also pictured is the sand box, various planters (we will buy some actual plants after the yard guy comes and identifies what is killing the perriwinkles.) You should be able to see where the arbor will be... probably wisteria is going there. Also remember that the lanterns haven't arrived so more pics as we accomplish it. Okay? Oh each of those pagodas burns incense as well.

Ideas welcome!

Zen

Happy New Year!

I have been working for a while, since we moved in on a Zen Garden with my daughter. Since I moved to Texas my green thumb has fallen off! Lol But I hope to post what we have done so far within the next week or two. Just a few pics. Today we put up the lattice to create the arbor and also a sand box... still need the mini rake. We have our Buddhas and stepping stones where we want them... I painted some of those. We put in some small pagodas... 2 of which are for incense offerings. We are waiting on a few plants and our lanterns now. Today we also attempted to start a pecan tree as I am told they grow well in Texas. We'll see what comes.

I have faith, much faith. When I have nothing else I have that mustard seed still in my soul. I wonder sometimes... you can plant 50 seeds sometimes, but only one grows. What is different in that one seed then all of the others? What magic lies there and bears fruit someday?

I've got faith... I hope I've got some magic too!

That's my side of it,

Angel